Leon Krier Quotes
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.Leon Krier
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
Pamela Adlon -
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
Pat Metheny -
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
Ian Hacking -
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson -
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk -
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
Carl Barks -
My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang -
A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
Rainbow Rowell -
After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
Gabriella Wilde
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
K. D. Lang -
Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
Oliver North -
My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Yoko Ono -
I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
Oksana Baiul -
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
Rachel Kushner -
I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
Palmer Luckey -
There is no such thing as an ugly girl.
Aston Merrygold -
Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
Hamza Yusuf -
'The Daily Mail' interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I'm a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn't appear. I'm really pretty boring.
Marlon James -
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.
Leon Krier